Atticists

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influence of Koine

The divergences of the Koine from classical norms gave rise in the 1st century
ad to a purist movement known as Atticism, which had little effect on the everyday spoken language although it influenced the written language, causing it to have archaizing tendencies.

part of Second Sophistic School

...were regarded as constituting the Second Sophistic movement. This was a backward-looking movement that took as its models Athenian writers of the 5th and 4th centuries
bce; hence, the label “
Atticists” (Greek
Attikos, “Athenian”) was applied to some of its leading members. The limits of the movement were never clear. It is usually...

role in dictionary development

...so much that explanations and commentaries were needed. After a 1st-century-
ce lexicon by Pamphilus of Alexandria, many lexicons were compiled in Greek, the most important being those of the
Atticists in the 2nd century, that of Hesychius of Alexandria in the 5th century, and that of Photius and the
Suda in the Middle Ages. (The
Atticists were compilers of lists of words and...

use in Ciceronian oratory

...case. In his day Roman orators were divided between “Asians,” with a rich, florid, grandiose style, of which Quintus Hortensius was the chief exponent, and the direct simplicity of the “
Atticists,” such as Caesar and Brutus. Cicero refused to attach himself to any school. He was trained by Molon of Rhodes, whose own tendencies were eclectic, and he believed that an...